UM Surabaya Lecturer Gives These Three Messages to the Community Ahead of the 2024 Election

• 11 Sep
• 2023

Foto Satria Unggul Wicaksana Dosen UM Surabaya (Humas)

UM Surabaya Lecturer Gives These Three Messages to the Community Ahead of the 2024 Election

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The excitement of the democratic party has begun to be felt in Indonesia. Several figures began to emerge and were put forward as candidates for number one in Indonesia.

As a democratic country, Indonesia is required to continue to regenerate leadership, starting from the local level to national leadership. Leadership regeneration through General Elections (Pemilu).

Quoting Bawaslu RI 2021, the 2024 election will face various challenges, starting from difficulties with voting rights due to the large number of ballot papers, the intersection of implementation stages that will run simultaneously between the general election and the regional head election, and updating voter data which is predicted to be a problem in the 2024 General Election.

Muhammadiyah University of Surabaya (UM Surabaya) lecturer Satria Unggul Wicaksana explained that the DPR, government and KPU agreed on the size of the 2024 election budget of IDR 76 trillion. The budget is allocated to election participants for props, campaign and other logistical costs.

"If it is not used for electoral breakthroughs and runs out of logistics, of course this will become a serious problem in realizing direct, free, secret, honest and fair elections (luber jurdil)," explained Satria Saturday (11/9/23)

According to him, the issues of ethnicity, race, religion, customs (SARA) used by election participants, including the use of money politics issues, the strengthening of populism, the presence of election participant candidates who are former corruption convicts, as well as dynastic politics which pose very serious challenges in the process. 2024 Election.

Satria, who is also the Director of the Center for Anti-Corruption and Democracy Studies, shared three messages that the public needs to carry out ahead of the 2024 Election.

First, voters must track the track records of election participants, both parties, legislative candidates, presidential and vice presidential candidates and regional head candidates. Track record in relation to integrity, not getting involved in dynastic politics so that it can strengthen Indonesian democracy

Second, avoiding various diseases of democracy, such as money political intervention, the use of SARA issues, and other efforts to divide unity, so that the leadership relay carried out in the 2024 elections is able to produce the leaders the public hopes for.

Third, community resilience needs to be strengthened, while remaining safe in conveying criticism responsibly both directly and via social media.

"Resilience is to elect leadership candidates who can demonstrate a strong political commitment to maintaining democracy, human rights, anti-corruption, as well as a commitment to the welfare of society," concluded Satria.